St. Tirechan

3 July

7th century. About 670-700 AD, Saint Tirechan wrote a memoir of Saint
Patrick, known as the "Breviarium." which is preserved in the "Book of
Armagh." He was a priest in Meath and disciple of Ultan of Ardbraccan,
who gave Tirechan his notes on Patrick. Using these notes, Tirechan
became one of Patrick's first biographers about a century after the
Irish patron's death.

The oldest extant hagiographical text to bring St. Patrick into contact
with Mag Slecht is Tirechan's Breviarium written between 668 and 701 a.
d. and entered in the Book of Armagh by the scribe Ferdomnach about the
year 807.

Tirechan records that Patrick travelled to Gaul (especially Auxerre and
Lerins), Italy, and the Tyrrhenian Sea. His work also includes valuable
details about Ireland during his own life
(Binchy,
D'Arcy,
Needham,
O'Hanlon,
Ryan).